USA Today - Aug 12 2010

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Clues Answers
"My humble apologies!" SORRY
"Whose bright ___ was this?" IDEA
Annoyed condition SNIT
Any song by the Platters OLDIE
Ball of yarn CLEW
Ballroom dance for two TANGO
Bantu language SOTHO
Beyond the suburbs RURAL
Bit of burning coal EMBER
Bob Cratchit's job CLERK
Breed, as salmon SPAWN
Built-out window ORIEL
Bullfight procession PASEO
Cafeteria missile PEA
Caps Lock neighbor TAB
Challenge for a speech coach LISP
Change, as a hemline ALTER
Chimps and orangutans APES
Chop-chop, to Chaucer APACE
Commit a gaffe ERR
Cul-de-___ SAC
Deliberately soften criticism PULLONESPUNCHES
Delphi diviner ORACLE
Deteriorate WORSEN
Diamond makeup CARBON
Expensive fur SABLE
Festive affairs GALAS
Filthy quarters STY
Garden herb THYME
German chancellor von Bismarck OTTO
Get ___ (board) ONTO
Huge mythical bird ROC
Isle of exile for Napoleon ELBA
It can put plenty in your tank GASOLINEPUMP
It's often said with flowers ALOHA
Jackson Hole bugler ELK
James Bond creator Fleming IAN
Jerome who composed "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" KERN
Kolkata cloth DHOTI
Clues Answers
Large Australian trotter EMU
Like some quarters CLOSE
Longest-running series on network TV MEETTHEPRESS
Math class calculation AREA
Modern factory worker ROBOT
More than simmers BOILS
Most dapper SPORTIEST
My daughter, to my sister NIECE
Not just one of the two BOTH
Oyster's center PEARL
Paste used in Japanese soups MISO
Pause cause COMMA
Photo ___ (publicity events) OPS
Playful kiss BUSS
Possible infection cause STAPH
Prepare to use, as a sleeping bag UNROLL
Roam (about) GAD
Russian coin KOPECK
Sheep shelters COTES
Show with a "Bad Boys" theme song COPS
Smell to high heaven REEK
Some nerve? OPTIC
Sourdough's strike ORE
Sugar and spice container? GIRL
Symbols of slowness SLOTHS
Testing spot LAB
Towel off again REDRY
Tribe for whom a state is named UTE
Type of thermometer ORAL
Up in the air UNSETTLED
Votes from antis NOS
Wedding dress fabric TULLE
Western wine center NAPA
What nearly everyone works for WAGES
Winter Palace resident, once TSAR
Wood used to make guitars ASH
Words with "good example" SETA
Works with visual effects OPART
___ de Triomphe ARC